Tugboat, barge detained for unlawful operation

KUCHING: A tugboat and a barge were detained by the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) for operating with expired documents. Sarawak MMEA director First Admiral (Maritime) Zin Azman Md Yunus disclosed that the tugboat and the barge were stopped approximately five nautical miles from Tanjung Po at around 10pm. He said that an MMEA asset […]

Unlicensed tugboat, crew detained

MIRI: The Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) Miri Zone has detained a tugboat with eight crews on-board, for operating without licence, some 18 nautical miles off Miri. Five of the crews are Indonesians, two are Indians and the other – a local. Miri MMEA director Mohd Shafie Paing said the tugboat was detained around 2.30pm […]

Tugboat, Indonesian crew detained

MIRI: The Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) detained a tugboat with four Indonesian crews for failure to display its licence, 42 nautical miles Northwest of Miri River on Saturday morning. MMEA Miri director, Eizanizam Muhammad Eng said, the tugboat skipper and three crew were detained during Ops Permai around 5am. “The tugboat was detained after […]

MMEA detains six vessels off Bintulu

BINTULU: Three tugboats and three barges suspected of transferring taxable goods at sea with expired authorisation documents, were detained by the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) here on Thursday (Feb 10). Bintulu Maritime Zone director Maritime Captain Mohd Khairol Anuar Saad said the vessels were detained by KM Renggis that spotted the activity about 3.5 […]

Bintulu MMEA detain tugboat with expired licence

BINTULU: A tugboat was detained by the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) about one nautical mile from the Sungai Kemena rivermouth. Bintulu MMEA director Capt (Maritime) Mohd Khairol Anuar Saad said the suspicious tugboat was detected during Ops Permai and Ops Benteng patrol at around 6.50pm, Tuesday (Feb 8). “Based on the inspection carried out, […]

MMEA detain tugboat, barges for unlawful activities

BINTULU: A tugboat and two barges were detained on suspicion of operating with an expired document. The Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) here stopped a tugboat and a barge approximately 2.5 nautical miles from the Sungai Kemena estuary at 7.45pm on Wednesday (Jan 19). Bintulu MMEA director Capt (Maritime) Mohd Khairol Anuar Saad said the […]

Tugboat, crew detained for operating without licence

BINTULU: The Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) Bintulu Zone has detained a tugboat, some 1.9 nautical miles off Muara Sungai Kemena with three crew on-board for operating with expired licence. Bintulu MMEA deputy operation director Effendy Mohamed Fadil said the tugboat was detained around 1.20pm during a routine patrol after in the area last Saturday. […]

Tugboat, crew members and barge detained

MIRI: The Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) Miri Zone has detained a tugboat, four crew members and a barge laden with 1,300 metric tonnes of gravel off Miri waters.  Miri MMEA director, Captain Md Fauzi Othman said, in a statement, that the barge and the tugboat were stopped about 1.7 nautical miles northwest off Kuala […]

Tugboat detained by MMEA

MIRI: A tugboat was detained by the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) Miri Maritime Zone at about 3.4 nautical miles southwest of Kuala Baram, here on Wednesday (April 14). Its director Maritime Captain Md Fauzi Othman in a statement today (April 15) said the tugboat was detained by MMEA while carrying out Op Permai in […]

Eight men, tugboat detained for having no pass

MIRI: A tugboat pulling a barge loaded with plywood was detained by the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) about seven nautical miles northwest of Tanjung Lobang last Sunday (Mar 21). Miri Zone Maritime director Capt Md Fauzi Othman said the detention took place around 4pm during an Ops Permai patrol, carried out in Miri waters. […]